Thank you, Mr. Chair. You are right. In terms of looking at the $319,000, that is really the O and M and the program management to look at all of these files. As we go through and we determine contaminated sites, the other part that this group does is actually look at the coordination and seeing that the remediation done is done per our standards. The funds that actually backstop all of this are in the environmental fund within Finance. That is a $50-million fund that we have access to in order to do remediation projects. For the money that we initially negotiated with the federal government, when we look at contaminated sites, we need to assess how much it is going to cost to remediate. Then our departmental staff will oversee third parties that would come in and do the remediation to our standards. Once that is completed, then that remediation site is then deemed cleaned up. Really, the $319,000 is just the operation and the management of all of these sites.

As I said earlier, we have five accepted waste sites. We have seven operating sites and eight sites that are a part of the devolution agreement that we are currently working on right now. We have a deadline to the end of March to report on where we feel that some of those are in the queue and whether or not we have enough money for them, and we continue to negotiate with the federal government. Thank you, Mr. Chair.